New-York tribune., 1887-05-15
COWS, CALVES AND EXPERTS.
INCIDENTS AND ANECDOTES AT THE CAT
TILE SHOW.

TIE SHOW.
The only experts that really amounted to any
thing at the cattle show last week were solemn
country deacon, who had brought his family down
one day to see the thoroughbreds and slim
brokers' clerk who was seeing the cows the other
night with his best girl and banking on his acquant-
ance with brindled mulley y or two out on his
country relatives farm. The good deacon has done
his own milking and watering for the last twenty
years and still carries his cans to market on week
days and. bravlng some twinges of conscience at
meeting his dollar-a pound and twenty -cents-a-
qnart customers, he planted himself right behind
the judges stand on parade day and took points
for an hour on the winners that ought to last him
whole winter at the 'Wayback Farmers Club.
Most as big lot of critters as seen at last
county fair" he remarked. beaming on young
man next to him. But they amt very hearty
lookIn'. them gray and yellow ones. Pears as II
their hides was washed and combed too much.
'Taint healthy to keep 'em slick that; least
ways we don't reckon up IN Wayback. Costs
$1,000, just learn. for Of them black and
white ones Why, they'll eat you clean out OF
house and home in no time. And you'd have to put
castron fences all over the place with one OF them
four ton bulls galavantn' up and down 1t. Them
black Jarsey buls-call 'em Alderney up our way
is bad enough with their kickin' and cussedness.
Looks like the elephant seen in the parade
the big felow-don't he Mirandyf" the old man
continued. "Only he's painted black and white,
stidder ashes colored Constantiny' they call him
Guess he came from the heathens and cost ton OF
money. Them brown-rcd with tho crooked
horns Is the ones for me. Look like our old heifer
at home And you don't have to bed 'em on soft
straw fresh every minute. Look AZ that yaller
COW there shakin as if the wind through the key
hole d give her consumpshun.
Civ sixty quarts a day. did sne' Golly! I'll
have to get q new handle on that old pump that's
been leakin' Sixty quarts day! Who'd
thought iti Whewl Gollyp
The young man had patent churn around the
corner which turned skim-mlk aud water into
Westchester County butter. But the old farmers
money went straight into an improved pump and
mixiug-vat arrangement
The brokers' clerk ran up against kumyss booth
early in the evening. Then he drank real skim
milk. sold as Alderney. and finally some cream from
the jersey rustic cottage. Starting from the brin-
die heiier down in the country his impressions OF
the show were something like this:
'Ah, yes, fine show. Never saw so MANY fine
cattle in my life. The real country cows, of
course. Some fine new breeds, though. l IKE
that new Kumyss stock, tell You. the little gray
lSU IAWD ones oNcT lutIc, ypu huONs ''"'''"
kind of milk they give though Tastes like you
had Your mouth full of 6omdge de Brio. All the go
now, you know. Felt at home when 90, some OF
that white Alderney milk, just like you drink
down al the Alderney Dairy. Don't see any Alder
neys here They ought to be sort Of yellow.
oughtnt they I Guess those big tanned ones over
there are Attorneys Expensive things. cows are
My cousin down in the country. lie paid T25O Tor
one. What's the price of this one, my man !"
"Twenty-tyo hundred dollars sir" SAYS the at
tendant quietly. Pedigree the catalogue. sir"
"Ah. thanks murnurs the slim expert. "Jer-
seys, aren't they 7 Guess III buy one of the ku-
mysseS"
There were real experts enough Mt the show. of
course tho rich breeders and owbers the clever
New England judges aud managers. the highly DIS
tinguiehed dairvmen abOut town who backed the
enterprise with subscriptions of $1,000 apiece.
But no one ever heard OF genuine breeder
of booded cattle who was not modest aud
retiring As for 1ve-sixths Of the people at
the show last week, one could see at glance that
they were taking their irst lessons in thorough
breds.
The cows themselves have been noted from day
to day ia TnE TRIBUNE. They were divided un-
equally into tho four milk cldsses-G1ernseys.
Jerseys, Holstolns aud Ayrshires. The Jerseys far
outnumberel the rest from the start aud the other
three together had all they could do TO hold their
eud up against this fashionable, longc'tablished
breed In point Of novelty the Holstcins had
slight al vantage. so large collection OF these
big. stolid. richly marked Dutch cattle has never
been seen before in New-YcIk.
The Ayrshircs are the plebeians comparatively OF
the four breeds. Their hides are rongher and
tawnier their Hanks less smooth and sleek than
those of the dainty Jerseys. the stately Gucrnseys
or the massive IIolsten+ Their horns arc longer
and darker. their heads less squarc-browsd aud
shapelr All the lines run toward the average red
country COW or bull which chascs so frantlcally
after artists and amateur photographers.
The Guernseys were trlne larger. Tcider and
more even-.empered than the Jerseys. One might
call them, perhaps tn most gentle and amicable OF
all the herds The IIolstem bulls are furious when
stirred mp the Jerseys vicious always The Gnern-
seys are easily approarhabe at any time. Their
markings soft and rich -as many tanclers MINK
the softcst, clcancst and richest OF ALL
The fawn-coored Jerseys however, were, the
popular favorilcs and always VIII be, perhaps
Their downy softncss of color and graceiulneSs OF
outline are sure to put them, III feminine eyes GER
taInly. among the dlintirst aud most lovaDle Oi
pets. Mrs. Lsugtry came IN one afternoon 10 ION
die n namesake of hers IN the Jersey herd. A. IL.
Darings famous old COW, Eurotas, OF the klotor
family was the cenire alwaysoi an adihlilhg group
of women aud children
But one had to the cows really to enjoy them
or have patience with longer descriptions of them
After tho cattle look through the rest OF the snow
the mass of dairy implements. patent electric
churns and watts and presses was rather tiresome
The multiplicity of strange wheels aud cranks,
cradles and separators, all whirliDg one way or
another under the pressure OF a big steam engine
was too much for even multifarious an expert as
A. Wright Sanford. This much-accompll lshed
critic standing sadly one evening IN the midst OF
these wonderful butter and cheese cOmpounders,
was heard 10 admit: This is one subject know
absolutely nothing about
There was one clever little invention here, how,
ever "A sort of sucking bottle for calves invented
In England. The young brokers' clerk gave 1t his
cordial comInendation. lie will buy one and take
il along down in the country with him this summer
for his bucolic relatives. And he may stay two or